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Struggling for Leadership: Antwerp-Rotterdam Port Competition between 1870 –2000

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Reginald Loyen

    1. Center for Economic Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  2. Erik Buyst

    1. Center for Economic Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Greta Devos

    1. Center for Business History, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Reginald Loyen, Erik Buyst, Greta Devos, Jan Blomme
      Pages 1-9

  3. Recent trends in maritime and port history

    1. Recent trends in maritime and port history

      • David M. Williams
      Pages 11-26

  4. Throughput cluster

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Throughput in the port of Antwerp (1901-2000): an integrated functional approach

      • Reginald Loyen
      Pages 29-61

    3. Port traffic in Rotterdam: the competitive edge of a Rhine-port (1880-1914)

      • Paul Th. van de Laar
      Pages 63-85

    4. Commentary on the papers of Loyen and Van de Laar

      • David J. Starkey
      Pages 87-90

    5. Port throughput and international trade: have port authorities any degrees of freedom left?

      • Sabine Janssens, Hilde Meersman, Eddy Van de Voorde
      Pages 91-113

    6. Commentary on the paper of Janssens, Meersman and Van de Voorde

      • Honoré C. Paelinck
      Pages 115-116

    7. Thirty-five years of containerization in Antwerp and Rotterdam: structural changes in the container handling market

      • Theo Notteboom
      Pages 117-142

    8. The Kempen Nexus. The spatial-economic development of Rotterdam and Antwerp

      • Arjen van Klink
      Pages 143-159

    9. The Antwerp port: elements of spatial planning

      • Jan Blomme
      Pages 161-168

  5. Port authority cluster

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Port and politics in Antwerp: a prudent approach

      • Frank Seberechts
      Pages 171-178

    3. The end of the sea

      • Henk Molenaar
      Pages 179-193

    4. Commentary on the papers of Seberechts and Molenaar

      • Adrian Jarvis
      Pages 195-197

    5. Land-use policy in the port of Antwerp (1870-1994)

      • Greta Devos
      Pages 199-219

    6. Port of Rotterdam: land-use policy during the twentieth century

      • Ferry de Goey
      Pages 221-234

    7. Commentary on the papers of Devos and de Goey

      • Sarah Palmer
      Pages 235-236

    8. Evolution of the Rotterdam port authority’s position

      • Henrik Stevens
      Pages 237-253
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About this book

The present volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on the economic history of the seaports of Antwerp and Rotterdam (1870-2000). This venue was held at Antwerp on 10-11 May 2001 and was hosted by the Antwerp Port Authority. This international conference aimed at confronting the development of both ports. In the course of the last century and a half, economic growth in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam has been staggering. Maritime economic historians, economists and geographers alike have investigated the development of both ports extensively, but separately. So far, only a limited number of attempts have been made to analyse Rotterdam-Antwerp port history from a comparative perspective. The papers presented at the conference provide a challenging starting point to - certain how and why both ports reacted differently to virtually the same economic and political stimuli. By bringing together both historians, economists and lawyers with different fields of interest, we have attempted to put the history of the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam in a broader international and comparative perspective.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Economic Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Reginald Loyen, Erik Buyst

  • Center for Business History, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Greta Devos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Struggling for Leadership: Antwerp-Rotterdam Port Competition between 1870 –2000

  • Editors: Reginald Loyen, Erik Buyst, Greta Devos

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57485-6

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1524-5Published: 07 October 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-57485-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 338

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Social Sciences, general, Commercial Law

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